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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on References and TranslationsW. G. Sebald ChronologyPart I: Contexts1. Introduction--J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead2. Meeting Austerlitz--George Szirtes3. Theoretical Reflections on the Work of W. G. Sebald--Martin SwalesPart II: Landscape and Nature4. On the Misery of Nature and the Nature of Misery: W. G. Sebald's Landscapes--Greg Bond5. Econcentrism in Sebald's After Nature--Colin Riordan6. Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W. G. Sebald--Simon WardPart III: Travel and Walking7. Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk--John Beck8. Textual Wanderings: A Vertiginous Reading of W. G. Sebald--Massimo Leone9. Sebald's Uncanny Travels: The Impossibility of Getting Lost--John ZilcoskyPart IV: Intertextuality and Intermediality10. Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald--Martin Klebes11. Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz--Russell J. A. Kilbourn12. Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz--Carolin DuttlingerPart V: Haunting, Trauma, Memory13. Taboo and Repression in W. G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction--Wilfried Wilms14. Seeing Things: Spectres and Angels in W. G. Sebald's Prose Fiction--Jan Ceuppens15. Facing the Past and the Female Spectre in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants--Maya BarzilaiNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex